Arespectable woman kate chopin essays

In her works generally, Chopin's writing is affected heavily by the settings she chooses for her stories and the settings she personally knew. Yet, perhaps her creative talent, had it flourished in another time and place, would have focused on different social boundaries and different kinds of people who yearned for freedom from social norms, or in a more free society, it might have focused less on the need for freedom and more on other fundamental aspects of the human condition. Chopin was not constricted merely to her time; the themes of life and death, love and loss, fear and fortitude, self-deception and self-knowledge, transcend particular settings and speak to every generation of readers.